Brightblack Morning Light ... WTF?

no I didn't but if anyone from other is reading this I kinda need a job

wasn't sure if I was going to see them on this tour and then I see they've got IASOS as the opening band

which is insane and I am there

http://iasos.com/detalist/idm/

will they be playing Harmonic Convergence this year???!

oh wow IASOS sounds pretty amazing.

I'd be more excited if Superconducter was the opening slot.

I'd be more excited if Krisna Das was the opening slot.

pretty typically excruciating kiss-ass piece in arthur. do music journalists get paid extra if they buy into a band's bullshit?

both their albums are the first two minutes of "the low spark of high-heeled boys" over and over. but in a good way

not really

dope song tho

listen to the first two minutes of high heeled boys and then any brighblack song. identical grooves

yeah i understood your first post.

do yourselves a favor and avoid their feature in the new Arthur, unless you really want to get disgusted by their shallow generalizations and willful naivete.

ok will do.

love this story from upthread:

I don't know about him insulting L.A. or the audience (I actually thought I heard him say, "You guys are great"), but it was pretty empty. Dan Higgs wasn't there, which pissed me off.

But yeah, about three-quarters of the way into the set, a backup singer came on (Mariee Sioux, maybe?) and Nabob's guitar amp started erupting in feedback. The sound was pretty shitty, but he stopped in the middle of the song and started futzing around. At some point he came over to Rabob's Rhodes and was trying to get her to stop playing (or something, he kept messing with her hands and she refused to stop). He then proceeded to run upstairs, looking for the sound booth. When he found it, he threw himself into the door a couple times, and, unsuccessful, started throwing shit at it (I think). (Meanwhile, Rabob and the rest of the band are all playing with embarrassed looks on their faces. The backup singer is standing there and not really doing anything). Security (and the sound guy) rush over to confront Nabob (this is all upstairs in the VIP lounge-y thing at the Troubadour). I don't really know what happened next but I was told that the guy who replaced D. Higgs on the bill (some guitar-y folk guy--Embrace? Entrance?) threw a bottle, either at security or at Nabob, and some hippie chick in a poncho was rushing back and forth. Rabob and the band played one more song (to heavy applause) and then got off stage pretty hastily.

The Troubadour has really shitty sound, but it was pretty inexcusable to storm off like a baby and throw shit at the the sound booth, especially for a guy like Nabob, who seemed like (in the 40 minutes I talked to him) a decent, if spacey, guy. But--more respect to the band's other 4 touring members, who played well despite the distraction. I have to say that I liked it a lot both with and without Nabob; as long as Nabob's not going to pull a diva act, they're worth seeing.

― max (maxreax), Monday, July 31, 2006 6:09 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u will henceforth be known as Grabob.

i might see them live in november but i can't imagine it not being boring

hay eman i would smoke a bowl before that show if i were you

true. this band is psychedelique.

Re: "Ian" and "(GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ)" --

unused photograph by Trinie Dalton from the BBML feature she wrote for Arthur (which btw, is now available online in text form here)...

http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/trinienabob.jpg

These folks make pretty cool music, but that article on them in Arthur (http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=3269) is kind of hard to take, I think. These two spout so many cliches. For example:

Nabob throws his head back and belly laughs, before finishing the riff. “East coasters are looking for their air conditioner power buttons so they don’t die. It’s like, Give me some iced tea and an air conditioner, and let’s watch the football game! In the West, it’s like, Come on out, the weather’s perfect, leave your clothes in the grass. Go surf! Kayak! Mountain bike!”

What is this guy talking about? Isn't it the American southwest, from New Mexico over to L.A. that's basically sucked all the water from the earth trying to maintain their precious lawns. And hell, last time I checked A/C wasn't just east of Mississippi. I could go on and on, but like somebody said above, I should just stick to the music and not read about them.

I think he was just pointint out that people on the west coast (probably northern california and pacific nw) are generally more into outdoor activities and in tune with nature around them.

that's a faulty assumption, though, and phrased incredibly poorly.

yeah, sure, i just don't get why people seem to get upset about it.

the piece in Fader def stuck more to music, maybe people should read that instead (sorry jay).

He just sounds like a clown.

I'm not particularly upset about it, it's just laughable. And perhaps a shame that Nabob really thinks that geography is the appropriate way to stereotype people.

you said you were disgusted!
he is just talking about how different regions of the country have different cultures with regards to the natural world. that's not stereotyping.

well, you implied you were disgusted.

i really don't want to defend these guys, let's just listen to the music.

a slight wtf? at the fact that the lp has a different cover than the cd. i still like it though.

i don't think it's a shocker that this guy has some retarded views about the world

also, the oppression song is a reworking of their old song which can be found on the split with bonny prince billie a few years ago.
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-760036-1155992174.jpeg

Um, he is sterotyping. Tons of people I know in Boston love going skiing, camping, mountain biking, surfing, etc. in Vermont and Maine and shit.

People in the northeast savor "perfect weather" more than a lot of motherfuckers, that much I can tell you.

It's just that I'd rather read about the band's interests in actual new age music, like how a relatively obscure but really quite influential character such as Iasos has informed their music and how they're now playing shows with him. That's a neat bridge between two generations. Then there's the interesting duality in their music. Although the group lives off the land in the middle of nowhere, the music, to these ears at least, doesn't totally reflect that. There is a certain urban vibe to it. But instead, I'm reading poorly formed thought on the environment. I'm into ecological issues, but I'd rather look to someone else for that stuff.

clowns make good music sometimes

I think he was just pointint out that people on the west coast (probably northern california and pacific nw) are generally more into outdoor activities and in tune with nature around them.

What does living "in tune with nature" mean?

playing all your songs in the same key

re: QN. I love this! Nabob, defender of A/Cs and grass lawns? Are you HIGH, sir???

Re: Mizzell. The Fader? You want to read a magazine owned and operated by a slick big-money marketing company, fine. I mean, I'm glad they get good stuff in there (cough, tokenism, cough), but...

I don't know what your point is. All I'm saying is that this dude spouts a lot of nonsense.

QN: Nabob's thought is pretty self-consistent, actually. Maybe you should re-read the piece, and pay attention to the stuff about Babylon.

What's the point? I'm high...

have you ever read Arthur magazine... on weed??

In my experience people that live out West are generally more into doing things outdoors. I went to a well-known outfitter here in Chicago and they didn't even sell tent stakes. It was mostly laptop bags and clothes. I think Nabob is OTM.

urban outfitters?

Nabob's not really talking about outdoors so much as he is talking about wilderness.

hay eman i would smoke a bowl before that show if i were you

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Sunday, October 19, 2008 9:08 PM

so if i don't have any i shouldn't go?

i'd see them with or without weed but since i havent seen them before i will defer to max on this one.

i has seen it it is boring weed will not help

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